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Re:Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014 by derf_ on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:31PM (#8356633)
I choose drive brands almost exclusively based on warranty duration. After Seagate bought Maxtor, they started lowering warranties on all of their drives. The results, as you can see, were predictable.
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Re:Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014 by hga on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @02:11PM (#8357001)
Their "enterprise" disks (except for Terascale HDD/Constellation CS models) apparently still have 5 year warranties†, and I just had to exchange a big Constellation drive, so I can attest their warranty service is still very good.

†They apparently dropped this to 3 years for the first 6 months of 2012 at least for the big drives who's technology base is consumer ... I suspect that change was not well received.

Unfortunately, you are generally correct that we've seen a race to the bottom.

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Re:Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014 by justcommenting on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:40PM (#8356715)
regressing warranty length against average time to failure in this data set would be interesting...!
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